Sentence examples for catch me out from inspiring English sources

"catch me out" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to trick or deceive someone or to expose their mistakes or flaws. Example: John thought he had successfully covered all his tracks, but Sarah's keen eye for detail caught him out. She found the one mistake he had overlooked in his report.

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"If they catch me out and about," he said, "they'll go for it".

There's nothing to catch me out on here; everything is open.

The first day of rehearsals, when I'm sure somebody's going to catch me out as a fraud.

You are trying to catch me out.' But if you go for a half hour walk to find a tool, that's not your fault," Hague says.

It's been reported that a tabloid sent the flowers, to catch me out, but they were sent by the children's primary school.

One night I found that he was deliberately stomping his foot fractionally slower than the true tempo of the music, trying to catch me out following his foot rather than the real beat".

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If a woman walked into the room, they stood up – which caught me out completely".

"With the wind as swirly as it has been, it caught me out on the 12th.

You don't really think that if Henry caught me out with a lover, he'd sit around being witty about Rembrandt placemats?

I can press the space bar to hide, but it isn't long before a jeep full of soldiers catches me out in the open.

I confess I did imagine my time at home to be more freewheeling than it turned out, so the rolling deadlines caught me out: mealtimes, naps, nursery pick-ups, washing-up, laundry, tidying … it all piles up.

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